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Time.com – The drama of the fight to control the L’OrÉal family fortune has reached up into the French government, with France’s Labour Minister facing accusations of aiding and abetting in tax evasion
Read More: France's Labor Minister Caught in the Fight for the L'Oreal Family Fortune
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McClatchy Newspapers – MEXICO CITY — The broad success of Latin America’s teams at soccer’s World Cup has brought many parts of the region a joyful and brief respite from troubles.
Read More: Joy, relief in Latin America over World Cup success
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AP – Torrential waters flattened a small town as floods raged through two states in northeastern Brazil and the death toll was expected to surpass 44 as rescuers searched Wednesday for hundreds of people reported missing.
Read More: Brazilian mayor: Floods have flattened entire town
(AP)
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Reuters – A magnitude 5.0 quake struck north of the Canadian capital Ottawa on Wednesday, shaking a wide area of central Canada, the U.S. Geological Survey and witnesses reported.
Read More: Quake rattles Ottawa, other Canada cities
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AP – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charged Wednesday that the real motivation behind plans to send blockade-busting ships toward Gaza is to allow free flow of weapons into the Palestinian territory.
Read More: Israel: Flotillas aim to get weapons to Gaza
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AFP – Pakistan desperately needs more schools to curb extremism but madrassas — the Islamic seminaries that have struck fear in the West — are not the main problem, a US study said Wednesday.
Read More: US study downplays Pakistan madrassa threat
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AP – In baseball, they call it a double-header. That sounds a little unrefined for ballet. But what else do you call it when two acclaimed visiting ballerinas are performing the same role on the same day on the same stage?
Read More: Dueling 'Beauties' a highlight of ballet season
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AP – Actor Val Kilmer appeared before San Miguel County commissioners Wednesday to apologize to his northern New Mexico neighbors and anyone else offended by disparaging comments he was quoted as making about the community.
Read More: Kilmer sets record straight with NM neighbors
(AP)
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Fashion Wire Daily – Giorgio Armani might be at an age when most men are pulling on slippers and putting their feet up, but judging from his latest two latest menswear collections this sprightly 75-year-old is as energetic and curious as ever.
Read More: Armani – From Seersucker Chic to Leather Army
(Fashion Wire Daily)
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Reuters – Oscar organizers are considering advancing the telecast for the world’s top film honors in 2012, which could speed Hollywood’s awards season and create challenges for other programs and film studios.
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AP – Prince Albert is giving Monaco a crown princess at last. Ditching decades of bachelorhood, the boyish if balding monarch announced Wednesday he will marry South African ex-swimming champion Charlene Wittstock. Albert’s betrothed has iconic shoes to fill, stepping into a role left vacant since the death of much-beloved Princess Grace in a car crash.
Read More: Monaco's Prince Albert bids adieu to bachelorhood
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AP – Erin Jacobs once traded her brand new bicycle for tickets to see Michael Jackson. Now, more than 25 years later, it’s her time, organizational skills and gas money that she’s giving to the King of Pop.
Read More: A year later, Jackson fans still out in force
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AP – CNN is pairing former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and conservative columnist Kathleen Parker for a combative new prime-time program it insists won’t be the second coming of “Crossfire.”
Read More: CNN hires Spitzer, Parker to co-host new program
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AP – Academy Awards organizers are talking about moving up the date of the show, possibly as early as January.
Read More: Oscar organizers ponder earlier show time
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AP – Lifetime network’s “Army Wives” is set to welcome the wife of Vice President Joe Biden in a future episode.
Read More: Vice president's wife set to guest on 'Army Wives'
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Reuters – In Tokyo, fans are planning a sleepover surrounded by his possessions; in Los Angeles, devotees are hoping to visit his grave; and on TV and radio stations around the world, lovers of the King of Pop’s music won’t stop ’til they get enough.
Read More: Dancing, exhibits, specials mark Michael Jackson anniversary
(Reuters)
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AP – Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is working on a “part memoir and part cautionary tale” about Europe from 1937 to 1948.
Read More: Madeleine Albright works on WWII childhood memoir
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Reuters – Do you enjoy Mike Oldfield’s “Music of the Spheres?” Are you uplifted by Gustav Holst’s “The Planets” suite?
Read More: Music of the Spheres? Stand by for the Boson Sonata
(Reuters)
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AP – Tickets to Jimmy Buffett’s free concert in Alabama to show support for the oil spill-stricken Gulf Coast have been grabbed up quickly and begun showing up for sale on eBay for more than $100 each.
Read More: Free Buffett concert tickets gone; eBay bans sale
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AP – From long-term cancer risks to radiation overdose mistakes, CT scans pose a growing danger to the American public and need more regulation to improve their safety, imaging experts write in a leading medical journal.
Read More: Experts: CT scans pose risks, need more regulation
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HealthDay – TUESDAY, June 22 (HealthDay News) — Living near a cell phone
tower while you’re pregnant doesn’t raise your baby’s risk of developing a
childhood cancer, British researchers report.
Read More: Study Clears Cell Phone Towers of Childhood Cancer
Connection
(HealthDay)
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AP – Brazilians are battling the bulge.
Read More: New study shows Brazil losing battle of the bulge
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LiveScience.com – Women are more likely to suffer from depression and stress
out than their cool male counterparts. New research suggests there might be a
biological reason for the gender difference.
Read More: Study: Why Women Are More Sensitive to Stress
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AP – Dozens of people who were blinded or otherwise suffered severe eye damage when they were splashed with caustic chemicals had their sight restored with transplants of their own stem cells — a stunning success for the burgeoning cell-therapy field, Italian researchers reported Wednesday.
Read More: Stem cells reverse blindness caused by burns
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HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, June 23 (HealthDay News) — Advanced lung cancer is
notoriously hard to treat, but a team of Japanese scientists reports that
a cancer drug known as Iressa was significantly more effective than
standard chemotherapy for patients with a certain genetic profile.
Read More: Tailored Treatment for Advanced Lung Cancer?
(HealthDay)
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HealthDay – MONDAY, June 21 (HealthDay News) — Despite its endorsement last
year by the American Diabetes Association as an effective way to diagnose
type 2 diabetes, new research out of Singapore suggests that the
hemoglobin A1c blood test may not accurately identify the disease among
elderly Asians.
Read More: Age, Race May Affect Type 2 Diabetes Screening Results
(HealthDay)
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HealthDay – (HealthDay News) — Stuttering is an interrupted pattern of
speech, often characterized by words, letters or syllables being repeated
or delayed.
Read More: Health Tip: If Your Child Stutters
(HealthDay)
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HealthDay – MONDAY, June 21 (HealthDay News) — Abbott’s Architect HIV Ag/Ab
Combo assay has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration.
Read More: Newly Approved HIV Test Can Spot Infection Earlier
(HealthDay)
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HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, June 23 (HealthDay News) — A potential link between
diabetes and a heightened risk of heart disease and sudden cardiac death
has been spotted by researchers studying mice.
Read More: Mouse Study Sheds Light on Diabetes-Heart Disease Link
(HealthDay)
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LiveScience.com – The compound resveratrol, which is present in red wine and gained fame for its supposed life-extending properties, might also help combat obesity, a new study in animals suggests.
Read More: Life-extending Drug May Also Combat Obesity
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AP – Patients will be told when they’re being treated by rookie doctors, who would get shorter shifts and better supervision under proposed work changes for medical residents.
Read More: Rookie docs may get more oversight, shorter shifts
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Reuters – Adults whose asthma is not fully controlled by medication might gain some benefits from adding an exercise routine to their lives, a small study suggests.
Read More: Exercise might aid asthma control: study
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AP – Swaziland’s death rate more than doubled in a decade, proof of the toll of AIDS, statisticians in this southern African kingdom said Wednesday.
Read More: Study shows mounting AIDS toll in Swaziland
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Reuters – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sent his first Twitter “tweet” message on Wednesday, then tried out video conferencing at Cisco Systems Inc as he made a quick tour of U.S. technology hub Silicon Valley, which he sees as a possible model for Russia to follow.
Read More: Russian president tweets, tours Silicon Valley
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AP – Cisco Systems Inc. said Wednesday it will invest $1 billion to help foster high-tech innovation in Russia.
Read More: Cisco commits $1B in meeting with Russian leader
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Reuters – Verizon Wireless plans next month to start selling Droid X, the latest phone from Motorola Inc based on Google Inc’s Android software.
Read More: Verizon, Motorola to battle iPhone with Droid X
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AP – Verizon Wireless said Wednesday that it will begin selling the Droid X, the follow-up to Motorola Inc.’s popular Droid smart phone, on July 15.
Read More: Verizon: Droid X smart phone coming July 15
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Christopher Null – Not everyone has it in them to write the great American novel. Some of you may have more skimmable ambitions — to create your own magazine.
Read More: Self-publishing expands from books to magazines
(Christopher Null)
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Reuters – The company that oversees Web addresses ending in .org said on Wednesday it was introducing extra security measures to guard against identity theft.
Read More: Internet authorities adopt new .org security
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AP – A federal judge in New York sided with Google Inc. in a $1 billion copyright lawsuit filed by media company Viacom Inc. over YouTube videos, saying the service promptly removed illegal materials as required under federal law.
Read More: Judge sides with Google in $1B Viacom lawsuit
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Macworld.com – If youâve been paying attention over the past few weeks, it should come as no surprise that the iPhone 4 is in high demand. More than 600,000 pre-orders and reservations were placed between Apple and its partners in the deviceâs first day of availability. The result crashed servers, networks, and iPhone apps alike. Shipping dates have been pushed back into July, retailers stopped taking pre-ordersâitâs been tumultuous, to say the least.
Read More: Braving the crowd: Getting an iPhone 4 without a reservation
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Ben Patterson – It’s big, it’s bold, it’ll handle Flash (eventually) and it’s got a cool-sounding name. Set to land next month, Verizon is clearly hoping to give the iPhone a run for its money with Motorola’s eye-catching, Android-powered Droid X.
Read More: Verizon unwraps 4.3-inch, Flash-ready Motorola Droid X
(Ben Patterson)
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AFP – Apple’s latest-generation iPhone goes on sale Thursday, with fans in Japan braving heavy summer storms and intense humidity to be the first in the world to get their hands on the device.
Read More: iPhone 4 set for global debut
(AFP)
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AP – Red Hat Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. said Wednesday that they expanded their “virtualization” partnership — the term for technology that lets one computer act like several.
Read More: Red Hat, Cisco expand 'virtualization' partnership
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AFP – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev fired off his first “tweet” on Wednesday as he toured the headquarters of Twitter and other Internet stars on a mission to create a Moscow version of Silicon Valley.
Read More: 'Tweeting' Medvedev tours Silicon Valley
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 Reuters (press release) |
Toronto's downtown banks empty out ahead of G20
Reuters TORONTO, June 23 (Reuters) – Business owners, bankers and brokers who normally throng Toronto's busy financial district have made themselves scarce ahead of this weekend's Group of Twenty summit, in the face of a … Toronto man charged in G20 bomb plot Man arrested on explosives charge ahead of G-20 Toronto suffers no serious earthquake damage |
Read More: Toronto's downtown banks empty out ahead of G20 – Reuters
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 The Hindu |
UN panel unwarranted, says Sri Lanka
The Hindu Sri Lanka on Wednesday took serious exception to the appointment of a three-member panel of experts by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to advice him on “accountability issues” relating to alleged violations of international human rights and … Sri Lanka Slams UN Rights Panel Sri Lanka opposes UN human rights panel UN sets up panel on Sri Lanka war |
Read More: UN panel unwarranted, says Sri Lanka – The Hindu
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 ABC Online |
Australia PM Rudd tipped to lose leadership vote
Reuters SYDNEY June 24 (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd looks likely to lose the leadership to his deputy, Julia Gillard, at a vote of ruling-party lawmakers set for 9 am on Thursday (2300 GMT Wednesday), local media said. … Australia's PM Rudd calls leadership vote Late surge puts Gillard ahead of PM Australia's Rudd May Be Ousted as Poll Ratings Tumble |
Read More: Australia PM Rudd tipped to lose leadership vote – Reuters
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 Seattle Times |
House GOP Retains Barton as Energy Panel's Ranking Member
New York Times Texas Republican Joe Barton's apology to BP PLC for what he called a White House "shakedown" to pay damage claims for the company's Gulf of Mexico oil spill won't cost him his ranking member seat on the … Rep. Barton weathers rebuke after his apology to BP Dems exploit Barton apology to BP in election push Joe Barton Keeps GOP Leadership Role |
Read More: House GOP Retains Barton as Energy Panel's Ranking Member – New York Times
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 CBC.ca |
Reaction from Kilpatrick's spokesman, Rep. Kilpatrick
Detroit Free Press "The FBI did a thorough five-year investigation into former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Where is the corruption, payoffs and bribes everyone expected the FBI to find attached to former Mayor Kilpatrick and his office as Mayor? … Former Detroit mayor indicted on 19 fraud, tax charges Ex-Detroit mayor in trouble with the law _ again Ex-Detroit mayor indicted on federal fraud charges |
Read More: Reaction from Kilpatrick's spokesman, Rep. Kilpatrick – Detroit Free Press
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